Is it necessary to install Alfresco as root user?

[ashokharnal]

I have two questions:
a. Kindly let me know if it is necessary to install Alfresco 3.4.d as root user?
and,
b. Is it necessary to set SELinux disabled or in permissive mode?

Apparently, I find no problems when I am installing Alfresco as user other
than root. But as I intend to use it in a production environment, in the long run,
will there be some problem?

[mrogers]

No its fine.    There's another discussion in these forums dicussing "how to".

Don't know much about SELinux but alfresco should always have permissions restricted to only allow read/write access to the alfresco account and possibly other accounts can have read access like the account which backs up.